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assess quality of Author disambiguation #3

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VladimirAlexiev opened this issue Aug 26, 2022 · 0 comments

VladimirAlexiev commented Aug 26, 2022 •

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I've read https://github.com/almugabo/openalex_qa/tree/main/scope, and you've made a good start here!

What do you think about Authors?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360383274_OpenAlex_A_fully-open_index_of_scholarly_works_authors_venues_institutions_and_concepts says "2013M disambiguated authors".
That number is wrong: the paper itself says "OpenAlex indexes about 213M authors, with thousands added daily".

But 213M is still way too high, so I think a lot of author records are duplicated:

When I used MAG, they had 15 records of me until I "claimed" and merged them
VIAF had 22M personal records (clusters) in 2020-09: https://catalogo.pusc.it/beyond_viaf/
ORCID had 11.5M authors in 2021-05: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P496
So I think the total number of researchers world-wide (dead and living) is maybe 15M, which would mean that OpenAlex authors have 14 duplicated records on average

VladimirAlexiev changed the title ~~assess quality of Authors~~ assess quality of Author disambiguation

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assess quality of Author disambiguation ourresearch/openalex-institution-parsing#3

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